Pride Started as a Riot: The LGBTQ+ Community Rallies Together with the Black Lives Matter Movement

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Wednesday, June 24, 2020
Pride Started as a Riot: The LGBTQ+ Community Rallies Together with the Black Lives Matter Movement
Here's how the LGBTQ+ community is rallying together with the BLM movement.In this more in common special, we focus on the intersection of Pride and the black lives matter movement. We speak to Imara Jones LGBTQ+ activist, historian and founder of TransLash, Reverend Doctor William H. Knight, Senior Pastor, MCC San Antonio, Alexi Minko Owner of the Alibi Lounge in Manhattan, Tiq Milan LGBTQ+ activist, writer and Kimahli Powell, Executive Director of Rainbow Railroad.

U.S. -- Just over 50 years ago, the Pride movement erupted outside of the Stonewall Inn in New York City, with black transgender women like Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera helping to lead the charge. Today, the LGBTQ+ community rallies together with the Black Lives Matter movement in the defense of the right to breathe, the right to be accepted, and for long-lasting change.